Research Affiliates and Future Investigators

Matt Hansen is a CHaMP Research Affiliate. Dr. Hansen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Hansen's research is focused in airway management strategies in pediatric EMS and other aspects of resuscitation by EMS providers outside of the hospital. Dr. Hansen has worked on the pediatric EMS research team at OHSU for the past 8 years and recently worked as a co-investigator on the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial. 

Henry Wang is a CHaMP Research Affiliate. Dr. Wang is the Professor and Vice Chair for Research of the OSU Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized expert in prehospital airway management and resuscitation, was a site PI for the NIH Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, and was lead investigator of the landmark Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial (PART). Dr. Wang is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physician Open. 

Kathryn Kothari is a CHaMP Future Investigator. Dr. Kothari is an EMS physician and Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician. She is an Assistant Professor and Director of EMS for the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division at Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Kothari serves as the Director and principal investigator of the EMS for Children State Partnership grant in Texas. She is the pediatrics committee chair for the National Association of EMS Physicians and a member of the Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council Pediatrics Committee. Her research interests include EMS education and prehospital pediatric pain management. Dr. Kothari is triple Board-certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Emergency Medical Services.

Kyle Schmucker is a CHaMP Future Investigator. Dr. Schmucker is an assistant professor of Pediatrics Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern and an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Children’s Health in Dallas. He actively participates in prehospital services working with EMS agencies in providing education and training in the care of children. He seeks to build upon this by developing evidence-based guidelines through prehospital research. His past work has focused on describing patients transported to children’s hospitals vs community hospitals for various medical complaints and assessing characteristics of patients transferred from community centers for supraventricular tachycardia. This work seeks to avoid unnecessary secondary transport. His present work is in deriving a prehospital clinical prediction tool to aid EMS personnel in transporting children with traumatic brain injury to the most appropriate receiving hospital.

Kyle Schmucker is a CHaMP Future Investigator. Dr. Schmucker is an assistant professor of Pediatrics Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern and an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Children’s Health in Dallas. He actively participates in prehospital services working with EMS agencies in providing education and training in the care of children. He seeks to build upon this by developing evidence-based guidelines through prehospital research. His past work has focused on describing patients transported to children’s hospitals vs community hospitals for various medical complaints and assessing characteristics of patients transferred from community centers for supraventricular tachycardia. This work seeks to avoid unnecessary secondary transport. His present work is in deriving a prehospital clinical prediction tool to aid EMS personnel in transporting children with traumatic brain injury to the most appropriate receiving hospital.